[wx-discuss] SoC starts...

[Julian Smart]

Hi Francesco,

At 11:49 24/05/2006, Francesco Montorsi wrote:
>Hi all,
>     I've seen that my component manager project for SoC has been accepted 
> :) Thanks!

Congratulations :-) only 3 out of about 23 proposals made it. It's
great that you're working on this important piece of wxWidgets.

>Before beginning, I'd like to start to ask you a couple questions:
>
>1) where should I host the package manager project ?
>    I think that when complete it should go in wxWidgets\utils but 
> meanwhile should I host it at wxCode ?
>It does not make much difference to me, provided that I have access to a 
>CVS server...

Good question. If you're happy working in wxCode, then why not,
otherwise we should give you an area of wxWidgets CVS to play
in until it's polished enough to be part of the official
directory structure. The last time I tried creating a module
in my own CVS server I managed to do it in the wrong order
and messed it up so we may need to enlist some help to set
this up. Unless you say otherwise, I'll assume you'll use
wxCode.

BTW Daniel has his own subversion repository; but I think
for the purposes of this project there should be an area
that only you write to, so we can do the assessment that
Google requires.

>2) should it work also with 2.6 branch ?
>    Or just with CVS HEAD ?

Personally I think it should be 2.6-compatible so others
can try it out, and for maximum compatibility with apps
that may wish to use it as a class lib. However, if it's
a pain to retain 2.6 compatibility, leave it as a separate
issue to be dealt with after the project is over.

>3) I'm cc'ing this mail to Daniel Lauk, too; the first thing to settle 
>down is the XML package descriptor...

Right! Hopefully what Daniel has done on the XML format will be
fairly uncontroversial and you'll be able to get stuck into
e.g. UI issues without getting bogged down in file format detail.
I'm hoping that Daniel will be able to hand over a library that
handles the XML issues, but if not, you could agree on a
rough API, implement some simple stubs, and plug in Daniel's
library later. Daniel should be able to give you his Linux-friendly
version of my simple GUI prototype.

Best of luck with the project! and do let me know if anything's
holding you back, e.g. CVS access, uncertainty about project
scope, etc.

Regards,

Julian




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